Your Magical Magnifying Mind

So, it’s 2022. Have you thought about what you would like to create in your life this year? Perhaps you want to overcome a fear or be a better parent. Maybe you want to lose weight or stop a bad habit. Or maybe you just want to get more sleep, feel better and stop worrying all the time. It can be frustrating to repeat the same problem over and over especially when you desperately want to change it. Being locked up in the prison of “I want to, but I don’t want to” or “I want to, but I don’t know how” is so frustrating. Imagine you had the exact key to unlock that cage and you were finally set free? Imagine that key allowed you to feel safe and secure and ready to take new actions easily. If you had that key you would use it, wouldn’t you?

When you really desire a change you probably spend a lot of time thinking about the problem like it’s a puzzle that needs solving. Your mind has likely ruminated over it, wasting countless precious hours analyzing that problem. Have you noticed that that hasn’t helped yet? When we approach change with analytical thinking our unconscious mind is bombarded with the wrong messages. We start picturing the problem over and over again and many times spiral into worry about the worst case scenario. So our minds persistently picture problems and catastrophe over and over again. Well my friends, this is hypnosis. Yes, you have actually hypnotized yourself into bigger and bigger worry or problems with your amazing magnifying mind!

As annoying as it is to realize this, it’s actually great because it means something very empowering…YOU MADE IT UP! That’s right, your incredible imagination has turned something small into something large, just like magic. This is actually fantastic news. This means you can also MAKE IT GO AWAY with the same magnifying power you have used countless times in the past in the wrong direction.

Change does not happen by talking to ourselves. If it did, you would have changed your problem by now about 50,000 times. It happens in our sensory experience of it. In other words, it’s all about how we see, hear, feel, smell or taste it in our mind. Imagine for a moment you are learning how to ride a horse. See the beautiful horse coming toward you. Hear the sound of the horse’s hooves touching the dirt as it slowly approaches. Smell the hay and horse smells all around you. Now feel the nerves begin and your stomach start to flip flop as you approach the horse. You shakily put your foot in the stirrup and try to heave your leg over the horse’s back but you miss. You fall down but your foot is still stuck in the stirrup and you sprain your ankle. Ouch, it hurts! Hear the sound of the horse neighing and snorting and feel the horse starting to anxiously shift around. Your heart is beating out of your chest, worried the horse will take off with you still attached by your hurt ankle. Your flight or fight response takes over and you go into pure panic.

So how did that make you feel? Do you want to learn how to ride a horse right now? I bet you don’t. This is exactly how you’ve rehearsed things going wrong in the past and now you can see why you’ve been struggling so much.

Instead, imagine you’re back there with that horse. You hear his hooves touch the earth with each step as he approaches and you sense a warm glow of calm radiate through your chest. Imagine he now stands in front of you as you take a deep breath and exhale slowly placing your foot into the stirrup. Before you lift your leg to mount the horse you send a reassuring feeling to your own mind and to the horse too. You heave yourself up over the horse and now you’re in position. See yourself sitting upright on the back of the horse, with your hands on the reigns. Delighted, you kick your heels slightly into his sides and he begins slowly walking. Hear the steady rhythm of hooves on the earth. You look around and see your view is much broader way up here than when you’re standing on the ground and you see so much more from this perspective. You feel empowered. Feel the horse come to a stop and see yourself gently coming down off the horse the way you got up. Everything went well and now you’re petting the horse on his nose. How much better does this feel?

As simple as this seems, this is exactly the right way to visualize your life going. It’s just like watching a movie of how you want it to be. See, hear, feel, smell and taste the exact way you want to be. See yourself loving your better habits, hear the way it sounds when you are succeeding, feel the feelings of success within you when things go right. You are rehearsing and practicing the way you have decided it will go next. This is the beginning of hypnosis for a better life. Did you notice it was easier to picture the scary image or the calm image? If it’s easier for you to picture the scary image, then that probably means you have lots of experience with worry or over thinking. Now, you need more practice in picturing things going your way and you’ll start to make the shift into greater success.

This concept works extremely well to change eating habits. Shelley is a client who came to me with a familiar problem. She had gained about 50 pounds over the last two years and she was ready to make life long changes with the help of hypnosis. When she first started she said that she hated vegetables and had always hated them but of course she really loved junk food. We chatted a while about it and I showed her how her likes and preferences were really just strategies in her senses. What she thought was a part of her personality turned out to be something she could easily change. We discovered exactly how she was sensing and experiencing vegetables in her mind. I asked her more questions about how she internally saw, heard and felt about vegetables and then I asked her about her favorite junk food. They were completely different inside. When I asked her to begin with picturing vegetables she said she saw them really far away, off to the side in black and white. She heard “yuck” in her mind when she pictured them and she felt an uncomfortable, repulsed feeling in her mouth. No wonder she didn’t like vegetables!. Next I asked her about the junk food. She was seeing the junk food in full vibrant color right in front of her. She heard “mmmmm” in her mind when she thought about it, and she felt a pleasant comforting feeling in her heart. Imagine that! So you can guess what happened next. Shelley learned a new “I love vegetables” strategy based on how her senses experienced junk food. Now Shelley loves vegetables and she has already lost 25 pounds! She says it was like magic. I say it’s not magic, it’s your amazing magnifying mind!

So yes, you can focus on your life going the way you want it to. See yourself calm, relaxed, confident and taking action. You can focus on loving vegetables and loving the actions and habits that get you to your goal. You can choose to believe you love exercise or love to study or that you are great at doing that thing you are afraid of and you will be on your way to succeed. It might even feel like magic. It’s all up to you. It can work wonderfully and you can improve yourself effortlessly. Or you could keep focusing on the problems and diving into the details of the issues. What will you choose to do?

Email me at wghypnosis@gmail.com to discuss how hypnosis can help you in 2022!

Kellie Lupe-Smith

Hypnotist, Mentor, Consultant

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Kellie Lupe-Smith is the owner of Burbank Hypnosis, Simi Valley Hypnosis and Winter Garden Hypnosis. You may have seen her on VH1’s hit series Basketball Wives, Parannoyance Web Series, heard her on The Interesting Hour or Alayna’s Beauty Talk podcasts or read her articles Positive Impact Magazine or WE Magazine for Women. When she is not working directly with clients she is certifying students in Hypnosis and Neurolinguistic Programming or singing and performing live at the historic The Lakeside Inn.

Read more articles from the Master Hypnotist Society: https://www.masterhypnotistsociety.com/letting-go-of-self-sabotaging-habits/